Dr. Kalam's Profile

Born on 15th October 1931 at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, specialized in Aeronautical Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology.After doing lot of work in field of missiles and satellites

Dr. Kalam took up academic pursuit as Professor, Technology & Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai from November 2001 and was involved in teaching and research activities . Along with this he took up a mission to ignite the young minds for national development by interacting with the youth across the country.

In his literary pursuit four of Dr. Kalam’s books - "Wings of Fire", "India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium", "My journey" and "Ignited Minds - Unleashing the power within India" have become famous names in India and abroad.




Dr. Kalam has received many honorary doctorates from almost 30 universities and institutions. He has been awarded the coveted civilian awards - Padma Bhushan (1981) and Padma Vibhushan (1990) and the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna (1997).


Dr. Kalam became the 11th President of India on 25th July 2002. After five prosperous years he left the office on 25th July 2007, as few political parties were not in support of him . Now , his focus is on transforming India into a developed nation by 2020 for which has prepared the master plan often referred as vision 2020. And it is time for our generation to perceive and implement it in our life make a difference to our country .



So, friends lets unite and come forward breaking all barriers to develop our nation by 2020.You can also visit www.abdulkalam.com to know more about him

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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is the father of India's missile program and was our president from 2002 -2007. He has done enormous work for INDIA's for the missiles like the Agni and Prithvi ,it is too difficult to track each and every achievement of Dr Abdul Kalam's achievements in few words . He was often referred as People's President by the people of INDIA .In the '90s Kalam emerged as the czar of Indian science and technology and was awarded the ,highest award given to INDIAN in INDIA for there contributions, BHARAT RATNA .

These are few Dr. Kalam's advice to the youngsters of the nation are

"DREAM,DREAM,AND DREAM AND CONVERT THESE INTO THOUGHTS AND LATER INTO ACTIONS."

"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength"

"Dreams are not those which are seen while your sleeping , dreams are those which don't let u sleep"

Dr . Kalam has launched his personal website www.abdulkalam.com .Check his website if u wanna know more about this great human being .